[So Hello~ This would be a double first for me. First post in Game Tavern and first try at an Earth-Age type setting. I've always been fascinated by the idea of modern in medieval fantasy. More than that I find myself think how interesting it would be if modern tech vs medieval magic. I would like to think they are on equal terms.

I suppose setting and rules should be told, though they are few:

For this RP, Drow's magic will be comparable with Human technology.Players won't die.Players can be Human or Drow, preferably soldiers or such. Players wont fight another, they can fight npcs at will. Player's powers will be 'normal' for their race/faction. Players can have a human and drow character if they like.

Setting:

Generic world Year 2000 about. Drow will have current Drowtales tech whilst Humans 2000~ or so tech.For the sake of having factions to play with, Drow will have the clans of Chel whilst Humans will have the country equivalents of America and Europe.

Let the show begin~~~>

In northern lands of tundra and mountains, the snow falls upon the cracked land. A massive sinkhole in the ground appeared from what the humans believe brittle ground. This hole, opening loudly in the middle of a blizzard, is later noticed by a Human town housing a small army base. The soldiers, better equipped for the snow and closer than any other government service, decide to check it out as a training mission for a single squad.

The cause of the hole was actually fae mining in the area. After the initial shock of the collapse, the miners believe the resulting hole to go up to the fabled surface. A route to the surface had not been discovered for many a years and many attempts to dig up have failed. The nearest outpost the excited miner can reach is owned by the Sargress. The Sargress send a single squad as well to verify the miner's claim. They let the miner leave as they have no reason to keep him and he goes and spreads his story and soon word would reach the other clans.

Little did the Human and Sargess Squads know they would soon meet and whether it was a bloody or not a 'First Contact' would happen.

Reka found herself visiting a friend at the far-out outpost when the miner came. The others laughed it off as a miner-tale. Reka herself didn't know how much stock to put in the man's claim, but neither did she dismiss it. A Fallen Legion such as herself was a scout but for enemies, not wild stories. Yet when the call for volunteers to check, she decided to go for it and awaited the rest at the outpost's gate.

Chrono awoke from his bunk a tad later than acceptable for base rules and missed breakfast. Giving his devious 'friends' a hard-time for not waking him up; they had a laugh and did their daily duties. Chrono, a mere Sargent, was called later by the captain, Captain David Jonson. Chrono, in part of being late and breaking base rules was to gather his squad and go 'investigate' the sinkhole in full heavy gear. In actuality it was a punishment to be out in the cold snow hiking a few miles weighed down by gear. Orders were Orders and Chrono grinned at the chance of having the 'friends' that got him into this to share his pain.

Labran'che Vloz'ressChe was starting to lose it, he stole a set of Sarghress armor to get away from some Kyrols and ended up being dragged along on a patrol. No chances to get away, to take off the armor and flee, he eventually found himself getting 'assigned' to some remote outpost. He was starting to think that it wasn't so bad, almost zero chance of being tainted, actually getting paid and somewhat regularly at that. What the fuck is wrong with me? I need to get out of here,it's not so bad. We're SURROUNDED by wolves! Both figuratively and literally. Some of them aren't so bad. He would 'volunteer' for the scouting mission. "You can always use a sealer, just in case. There might still be demons up there, you know?" He quitely packed his things into his pack, hidden under his Raider gear. He looked up at Reka as he walked to the gate to report. Oh shit, she's not assigned here. Think she'll recognize us? Well, she's always been quite, let's hope she doesn't. And if she does, hope to Turtles she doesn't say anything. The Ssu stood in his 'borrowed' light armor next to her, his face covered by his helmet and visor. He had a one handed ax on his hip and his chains wrapped around his arms. "Hey, new girl...think this is just gonna be a quite one?"

Kenji Hernandez (Reusing my SEAL from Gunbird's RP)Ken was doing sit ups after morning chow when he got the word. "Damnit...I knew I should have woke him up." He finished his set before getting up to go shower and prep for the mission. He was strapping on his heavy gear when he saw Chorno, "Hey man. I'm sorry about that shit. The others told me not to and well...fuck I shouldn't have listened to em." He'd hand his squadmate a large chocolate protein bar. "Pretzels and Caramel. I also got rice crisps and nougat. Not a warm meal but it'll keep ya going without your stomach making whalesong."

When Shynt herd word the some one found a way to the surfiest, he grabbed his old raider gear and went to the outpost.

On the way he saw a familiar blue haired woman “Im surprised that you volunteer to this,Reka.” Even though they were in 2 different legions, he manage make a friendship with the other sniper. He remember that she was quiet person so he asked her a simple question. “How have you been?”

He then notice a drowussu with that was wearing ill-fated set of armor. He look familiar. After a moment of thinking about it, Shynt just shrugged and continued walking with Reka.

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Human:Brian O'Casey(Will also use my PCs from Rumble. But as a Private Fist Class, not a officer and will not have a nickname )

Brian was already in the the locker room thoroughly checking his rucksack, SAW mag pouches and other equipment he will be carrying during the exercise.

He greeted Kenji when walk in and also apologize to Chorno. “I could have woke you up too, but one of the clowns stole my boots and I have to go running after him.” *Sigh* “But ,we were over do for a trip into the wilds anyway”

After Ken talk about the he food was carrying, he herd group of solders, some of them form Chrono’s squad, make a dumb joke about the Sargent. “I don’t think that would be enough food incase we get lost in a snow storm. Might be good to bring some heater, tents and some sleeping bags with use.” Devious smile appeared on his face. “Since Im carrying a 22 pound light machine gun, I think we have more appropriate candidates to carry those supplies.” He pointing his finger finger at the soldiers who were laughing just a moment ago.

Reka was pondering the possible implications of the outcomes of this mission when she was approached by what looked like a standard sarghress private. He looked a bit too much like a standard solider though. It was then she would look at his weapon choice and eyes. Reka was an awkward gal to say the least but when it came to her comrades, both present and past, she was quite good at identifying them. Perhaps this was due to her sniper training or infiltration training from Fallen. Mostly likely it was simply because she cared about her friends. In any event, realization would flash across her face as she knew who he was. Che had nothing to fear however as he was right in thinking she was a quiet-kind of gal and she did not care why he was dressed as he was.

Che's comment "Hey, new girl...think this is just gonna be a quite one?" made Reka think he was nervous about the mission. She lightly knocked the back of her hand on his breastplate and gave a reassuring, if confusing, smile.

It was then that Shynt showed up. Being from another legion made it hard to keep in touch but that was exactly way Reka had made the trip out here; that and she had nothing better to do. "Good." She respond to his question.

Awkward pause,

"You?" she asked.

A few minutes later the squad of drow moved out. There was no ranking soldier with them, technically making Reka, being a Fallen Legion, the highest ranked. She didn't really lead however and the 'orders' of 'check it out' where simple enough that everyone present could follow them.

As they moved to the mines entrance the miners where in the middle of doing what Reka was before; talking about the possible implications of the outcomes of this discovery. So engrossed in their talking they didn't take note of the squad. Excited miners aside, there was an oddly chilling draft coming from the mine's entrance.

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Chrono / Human

Brain and Kenji proved to be true buds. Chrono accepted Kenji's snack with a hearty handshake, crushing the snack. "Thanks man. Think my stomach will still sing a bit but maybe now the storm can cover it up...oy! Brain!" Chrono greeted Brain back, "Stole yer boots? Really? That's some kiddy-level crap there." he criticized it but he was snickering all the while~ "Weight huh? Now I don't actually think we need all our gear n rations but~" and he rose his voice to the entire squad to hear, "Captain wants FULL gear on. All of it. If any bags are not 90 pounds or heavier I'll personally piggy back on ya to make up the difference!" He then added for crueltys sake, "We'll likely march until you throw whatever you ate this morning so better if you skip breakfast-oh wait none of you jerkwads did. I seem to be the only one." A solider spoke up trying to hide in the background but her voice gave her away, "Gee Sarg you sound a bit bitter there.""Dam straight Sheena! I missed tacos!" Chrono barked back and there was a pause before Chrono, Sheena and few other laughed.

Kidding aside, the 'walk' through the heavy snow and forest would make a lesser solider indeed hurl. "You ladies, and Sheena, cold yet?" Chrono shouted over his shoulder as they approached the mountains. Varying responses of "Freezing my balls off!", "No sir!", and "Why am I not a lady?" could be heard. "Because Sheena, Chrono explained, "I saw you stand up to the captain, you've got more balls than the rest of us." To which Sheena grinned.

"Brian, Kenji!" Chrono called out, "Sink hole should be right over this ridge. Go take a look. The rest of the squad will take shelter over by that rock outcropping. Get a look then get back asap. This blizzard is forecast to get worse so where hunkering down."

Che had a look of pure panic on his face when Reka came up to him and 'hit' his armor. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!What did that mean?! When she didn't say anything and turned to Shytn he stayed looking forward as the panic on his face died down. He let out a sigh as they started their march to the mine.

Che stood near the back of the squad as they got to the mine. He moved towards the front as he felt a chill run down his spine, and his face. "Brr...Hold up a sec." he closed his eyes and placed a hand on Reka's shoulder to use her as a guide as they walked. "No Demons. Couple of miners off to the side, one of em's got a really weak seed. Nobody's in front of us." He'd open his eyes and take his hand off Reka's shoulder, "Should be good."

Kenji flexed his hand after Chrono let it go from his 'handshake'. looked over at Brian, "We're not gonna get lost in a snow storm, cause we're not gonna be running around like some baka pendejos. We're gonna bunker down at the first sign of shit going bad, I'll take the tent. We've all got MREs for three days, I'm packing for five, not including my personal stash." he pulled out another protein bar to show it off before tucking it back into his gear. "And those were NOT tacos. That was Army Flatbread and leftover Hamburger." He double checked his pack before attaching the tent bundle to it. "Next care package from home I get and I'll show you some real tacos." He double checked his gear before putting his pack on, "Hell, Abuela Hernandez's taco spice mix will even turn Army 'Tacos' into some good shit."

"Fuck man, I was cold ever since I got off the Transport and first got here." He went up to Chorno as he called out, he unclipped the tent from the pack and handed it to the others who were staying behind. "You guys pitch the tent since you didn't want to wake him up." he'd put his pack back on try to peer over the ridge. "I'm just staying it now. If I see some guy on a snowmobile shooting at a dog, I'm gonna shoot that dog and set it on fire. I got this weird feeling man."

Shynt was a little worried that Reka would not recognize him, but her reply put a smiled on his face.

When he herd her question he shrugged. “It could be worst. Being a guard was not as bad as I though to would be. But I miss going top side and talking to inhabitants from there. I wonder what they are like now such a long time?”

When the ssu maintain said that the cost was clear, he could shake the thought of something bad other then tainting. “I don’t want make you panic, but anyone that is up there has never seen a our kind in.. generations. Lets be careful and not try to scare the locals.” …………………………………….

Human:Brian O'Casey

Brian tried to keep hime self for giggling as Sargent barked his orders time the rest of the squad. He did rase a eyebrow after herring Chrono missing tacos. Wait, who the hell has tacos in the morning? He shrugged it off, and finished packing up before heading towards your armory.

Even though was not carrying any of the camping gear, Brian still have to huff it through the snow with his M249. Not only was it heavy and cumbersome but he was also been having malfunctions recently. The armor seemed to fix the problem, but to keep the cold was freezing the lubricant , he have to cycle the bolt after few minutes or so. He kept the belt out of the chamber so he won’t have the fat pice of junk go off while clearing. To him there was no need to have the gun reddy for action because they were in the U.S. But after Chorno gave out his orders and Kenji mention 'The Thing', he loaded the SAW with a hundred round belt of 5.56×45mm NATO rounds, and moved up to the sink hole.

“I love that movie, Ken, but this is a shitty time to talk about aliens.”

Reka was curious about Shynt's age when he said 'topside'. Was he a thousand years old or older? She shrugged it off.

They went into the mine without a single miner interrupting them. It could be said the miners figured them to be the troops investigating; to which they would be right. Still before they went to far, Reka picked up a map of the mine from what looked like a supply area, filled with pickaxes and the like. It was then Che grabbed her shoulder.

Reka hadn't expected their to be any demons but she nonetheless thanked silly-looking armored Che for checking. It never hurt to check. To her surprise it seemed the other troops had been worried about tainting and where had relived expressions. Reka was one to be numb to most feeling and thus slow to get some things. She then realized that the troops where nervous, a point supported by Shynt's words. This was a monumental thing and there where as many rumors about the surface as there had been years without access. It made sense that the troops where nervous. A second realization came when she found that the troops were looking at her. Reka didn't know why. She didn't hold herself in high-enough esteem to realize that she still calm attitude was helping the troops feel at ease.

The mine was thankfully simple in layout and they got to the reported area on time. Sure enough. A giant F'in hole reached up and up. It was about three towers high and a tower wide, but the chill of wind was sure. Reka should have been astounded by the hole but when a white spek landed on her she was breathless at the strange yet beautiful falling cold white. She and many other drow had never seen 'snow'.

-----------------------Chrono Human

"The camp's underway. This storm is getting serious.""Tell me something I don't know." Chrono said to Sheena over the high winds. "Well I'm getting married in May." Jenna responded to which Chrono gave a silent moment followed by a hearty laugh."Hahaha! Is that right? Oh wow congrats. Who's the unlucky fellow?""You're an ass Sarg." "Sometimes. You get everyone nice an cozy. Start up a coffee pot. I will retrieve Brian and Kenji.""Yes sir." Sheena replied as Chrono headed off to the two's location. [Radio] "Chrono to Brain. Chrono to Kenji. Sound off. You find the objective?" [Radio]

Che wasn't feeling afraid like the others, well, not for the same reason anyway. Che laughed, "And how exactly are we supposed to not scare a bunch of midget primitives? Tell em we're not gonna enslave them this time?" He looked up the hole, one of the white dots landing on his nose. "The Hel?" He tried to pull the snowflake off, then looked at his gloved fingers, "There an Ice Specialist up there or something? It's frickin cold." He held out his hand and snapped his fingers a few times till he got a spark, growing it into a small palm sized flame. Cupping it in both hands. "So is this what we're looking for?"

Kenji looked to Brian, "Oh come on man. If it's a sinkhole, not a meteor or a crashed ship. Base would have picked it up on radar and there'd either be some Langly Spooks with us or we'd be on confined back at the base." He'd pull out his radio, "This thing's always too soft." keying the radio, "This is Kenji, 10-9?" He paused a moment as he waited for Chrono to repeat, "That's a 10-4, staring at it. Looks pretty deep from where I'm standing, how do you want us to handle this?" He'd turn to Brian, "What do you think? Anchor a line and I go to the edge? Call out to see if anyone's down there?"

Shynt eyes narrowed at Che when he herd him talking about ‘midget primitives’ “That would nice thing not to threaten in search a way.” He tried his best to his composure and not to lash out at the crazy Suu.

His didn't last long as he saw the snow flakes coming down from the tunnel. “Wow, I never seen this stuff in long time.” He turn back to Che, more eager to answer him then to attack. “Actually snow is frozen water that comes from the sky. The warmer variant is called rain.”

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Human:Brian O'Casey

Brian tightened his slang before speaking back at Kenji “Dude, you the one that brought it up. But yes, if this more than a natural currents base would have the whole company out too.”

He peered over whole trying to see if see anything down there.” If we’er going down there, we better have have enough rope. I cant see the button from…wait.” He squinted as he saw A faint light at the bottom.” Is that a fire?”

Trudging through the winter storm, Chrono reached Brian and Kenji. He'd give a friendly pat to their backs to let them now he was there. He'd whistle at the size of the hole as he took a peek as they had. "This storm's a bit much for a training drill." He would say, before looking into the hole again. "I need you both safe at camp so unless there's more to this ho-" it was then he'd see the light, faint as it was. "The hell?" He took out a scope and peered down. "That light some aliens or people?" he asked, "Cause both are unlikely." he made a loud 'tsk' sound. "I can't see anyone surviving a fall like this."

------------------Reka

Reka wasn't outfitted for cold climate, none of them where. Thus even without the wind above, the chill sank in her bones. Military bred, she as many of the other troops, shook it of and endured. Some less gracefully than other, "Freezing my balls off!" a grunt grunted. Seeing Che light a flame she created a basic mana-light and waved for the others to follow suit. She then went to Che's side, unconsciously a bit closer than normal due to the warmth of his flame, and answered him. "This is it." She rose the light further and looked around, debrie was everywhere and uneven rocks where piled high.

"..." Reka looked up. She had the feeling of being watched.

-------------Chrono

"...it just got brighter...Oy.." Chrono motioned to them both as he told em to use scopes. "Those are people right?" Chrono looked a time more and then saw... a face? Looking at him? The 'people' were still too far, and too much in the dark, to get much more than a silhouette of. "Shit. Those are people. Brain, how much rope we got? Kenji, radio Sheena at camp to radio base. This training mission just became a rescue mission."

Che would look up at the opening, "So we gotta go up there?" This 'snow' shit is gonna complicate our escape. Maybe we can just 'get lost' in one of the tunnels? And then really get lost. He noticed Reka was right next to him now and he gave a slight smile, then he realized that she, and everyone else was just cuddling up to him for warmth. He extinguished the fireball in his hand and brought up a Mana light to make climbing a little easier and not accidentally set something or someone on fire. He'd start climbing the rocks with the others, while he was doing good it was obvious he didn't have any Raider training.

"Fire?" He started walking towards Brian, then Kenji jumped a little when Chrono not only didn't answer them on the radio, but slapped him on the shoulder. "Pendejo!" He'd start creeping closer to the ledge, moving away from the others so he wouldn't put all their weight on what's already proven to be unstable ground. "Right I'll get her on the Horn." He keyed the Mike, "Sheena, come back." "This is Sheena." "Get the base on the horn, tell them we've got people down in the hole and need transport and medical personnel. Then get every foot of rope you can get and get your asses up here. We're going in."

Even thought Shynt had been in cold before, the lack of proper clothing made him shiver like the rest of the troops.The good news is that brought some dry moss to make a small fire with. When he saw Che produce a flame, set the moss on the ground and pointed add it. “We will get a lot more warmth if you place the flame here.”

He then saw Reka looking up the tunnel.When he looked up, he thought he saw some figures looking down form it. The snowstorm was make it hard for him to see them clearly. “I think we got company. Let not do anything stupid.” …………………………………….

Human:Brian O'Casey

Brian almost fell down the hole, when Chrono pat him. “Damn Sarge, don't sneak up on us like that!”

After taking a few deep berths, he gave the Sgt. and Kenji his two cents.” Maybe there guys went down this hole on purpose. They might be a civilian cavers that forgot this was Army property.”

When he look back down agin, he can see more light then before. “ Um..I those being made be flash lights?”

Chrono"Something like that yeah. I agree." Chrono responded to Brian's explanation. "Whatevers the case lets get started." Chrono pulled out equipment and started hammering anchors down as he then set up he had; which amounted to about 50 feet. "Say..." Chrono started as he motioned to receive the rope the others had as well; adding it to the length of his, "If they be cavers, where are the ropes they used to get down? Think the snow covered them up?" he asked.

With ropes in place, Chrono gave his life-line rope to Kenji. "Alright I'm headed down. You drop me and if I live you're gonna clean soo many dam toilets." Chrono said jokingly as he started his decent.

The rope wasn't far enough to reach bottom but was to get about a third of the way. Chrono planned to free-climb the rest.

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"They're coming..." Reka said and other troops took notice. Though still far up, it was certain that someone was on their way down. A miner? No they where all accounted for. Another troop? No, as far as she knew, they were the first to arrive. "Who's that?" a drow in the group asked. It was as if his question brought forth the answer to her mind. "A Surfacer." she said then with other drow somewhat in disbelief. Surfacers were a myth. The surface itself was just a legend, and according to that legend everything up there was dead.

Question was... what did they do then? The lights where sure to give them away but ridding them would equally-no wait..."That could work..." Reka thought aloud. "What could work?" a nearby recruit asked. To which Reka looked to him and the others. She didn't know if anyone would follow what she had to say but she figured it was worth a try. "Extinguish the lights. Back to the doorway. Meet them on our terms."

Kenji would clip his radio to his belt and grab the rope that was tossed to him. "Shit man, if you drop it's because I'm 5 seconds behind you." He dug his heels into the snow as far as he could and braced himself so he would be another anchor. "Maybe they're stupid enough to free climb down a sinkhole? Or they didn't anchor their lines properly and that's why we don't see em." He'd grin as he looked to Brian, then Chrono, "Hey if it is some lost civies let's fuck with em. Pretend this is like Area 52 or something." He wasn't sure if Chrono could hear him anymore. "I mean shit, when I was stationed in Hawaii, funny story about that too, another time. But anyway there was this live fire training course that was pretty much an entire valley that belonged to the Army. Navy used to bomb the shit out of it too and there's still some artillery training, lot of shit that didn't explode. I mean this place is like the zit on the ass end of nowhere and they kept getting tourists coming out to see some cave nearby and we'd get people trying to hike past the fence. One day I'm on leave but still in my fatigues, decide to take a cruise out there since it's lovely. I see this group like halfway past the fence, so I pull over and get out. Now I'm still wearing my fatigues and I get this hair up my ass. I call up to them, 'You are trespassing on US Army Property' blah blah blah, recite the penalties and such. These hot chicks and older guy start climbing back down to the road but this one chick is like 'fuck you I go where I like." He chuckles, "So I yell 'Halt, you are in the middle of an active minefield!' Boy that bitch's tune changed. I mean I was lying about the mines but there were civies who died from unexploded shit up there."

Che would look down at the moss Shynt set down, "Should have told me that before I put out the fire and started climbing." He looked up and kept climbing, Would you be offended if I said you had a great ass? You wanna risk her dropping something on us? Che would pause when both Shynt and Reka noticed someone up above. He held his position and closed his eyes, "I don't see any demons or Auras up there." He'd open his eyes and look down at Shynt, "And can you define what stupid is for this situation?" He saw the others starting to climb back down now, Fuck this. He extinguished his Manalight and then clung to the wall with his feet firmly placed. uncoiling one of the chains around his arm. He pulled a sickle from his belt and connected it to the chain, wedging the blade into a crevice before he gave it a couple yanks to test it. He'd grin and start repelling down with his chain, making a rattling noise as he went. This might qualify as stupid. Too late to stop now. Che would get to the ground quickly, giving a hard yank on the chain and catching the sickle by the handle as it fell into his hand.

Shynt was not paying attention to what Che was saying and doing. He was focused on the figures on top. It looks like the over-worlders were dropping down a rope.

He herd Reka give out the order to fall back to the door way. “Right behind you.”

…………Brian

Birian shrugged in response to Chrono before preparing the ropes “I don't know Sarge.The only logical answer is that there is a system of caves that those spelunkers found near here."

As he also brace himself the holdup the sergeant, hey listen to Kenji talking more then usual about his time in Hawaii.” Area 52? Really Ken? We all be in deep shit if those civies go to a news agency and tell them that we have some UFO in the parking lot here. What next Ken? Tell them that there is Jackalope has tea with Elv….”

He paused when he saw the light dim and herd heard a faint rattling of chains. “Wait? Why did they suddenly shut their lights? “ Even though he was Busy holding up the rope he needed to warn the sergeant. “Chrono, I know it’s a bad time to ask you this now, but do you have you light and M9 on you?”